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Country	Clue	Date founded	City	% Correct
Angola	Extensive reconstruction being carried out here.	1576 AD	Luanda	72%
Armenia	Named after the fortress Erebuni.	3200 BC	Yerevan	72%
Bahamas	Was once a pirate haven.	1670 AD	Nassau	67%
Australia	Home to a famous opera house.	1788 AD	Sydney	67%
Andorra	The city's old town is called the Barri Antic.	before 700s AD	Andorra la Vella	61%
Azerbaijan	The city's Culture Center was designed by architect Zaha Hadid.	before c.1st Century BC	Baku	61%
Syria	Home to the Umayyad Mosque and famous for its age and the many cultures who've lived there.	9000 BC	Damascus	61%
Nepal	Famous for its temples. Part of the film Doctor Strange was set here.	723 BC	Kathmandu	61%
Portugal	Famous for its architecture, including the Belém Tower.	1200 BC	Lisbon	61%
Turkmenistan	Was destroyed by a Mongol horde in 1221 after opening its gates; it was rebuilt later.	2000s BC	Merv	61%
Jordan	Contains an ancient citadel, occupied over time by the Assyrians, Babylonians, Ptolemies, Seleucids, Romans, Byzantines and Umayyads.	7250 BC	Amman	56%
East Timor	Home to a statue of Jesus.	1520 AD	Dili	56%
Kuwait	Home to the Kuwait Towers, a group of water towers.	1613 AD	Kuwait City	56%
Luxembourg	Used to contain Fort Thüngen until the Treaty of London.	963 AD	Luxembourg City	56%
Czech Republic	People were famously thrown out of windows a number of times in this city.	600s AD	Prague	56%
Ecuador	It is surrounded by eight active volcanoes.	c.980 AD	Quito	56%
Chile	Struck in 2010 by the sixth-largest earthquake ever recorded.	1541 AD	Santiago	56%
Liechtenstein	Seat of the royal family.	before 1100s AD	Vaduz	56%
Greece	(Two possible answers) Location of the first democracy or a city that was shunned in Greece after remaining neutral in the Greco-Persian Wars.	5000 BC	Athens or Argos	50%
Poland	Its Old Town is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.	c.800s AD	Kraków	50%
Malaysia	Home to Ho Ann Kiong and Tien Hou Kong, Taoist temples.	before 600s AD	Kuala Terengganu	50%
Philippines	The second most natural disaster-afflicted capital city in the world.	c.3000-2000 BC	Manila	50%
Oman	Has been an important trading port for a few millenia.	6000s BC	Muscat	50%
Papua New Guinea	Queensland tried to annex the area around where the city is now in 1883.	before 1873 AD	Port Moresby	50%
Iceland	Home to Hallgrímskirkja.	c.870 AD	Reykjavik	50%
Singapore	Known for being an environmentally-friendly city.	before 650 AD	Singapore	50%
Madagascar	Was the political capital of the Merina Kingdom.	1610 or 1625 AD	Antananarivo	44%
Paraguay	Home to the Palacio de los López.	15th August 1537 AD	Asunción	44%
Qatar	Contains an artificial island called The Pearl-Qatar.	before 1681 AD	Doha	44%
Sierra Leone	Started as a place for freed slaves to come to.	1787 AD	Freetown	44%
Israel	Probably most famous for its depiction in the Bible, where its walls are supposedly blown down by trumpets.	9600 BC	Jericho	44%
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	The chief port on St. Vincent, it is overlooked by Fort Charlotte.	1722 AD	Kingstown	44%
Gabon	Contains Gabon's largest market.	before 1839 AD	Libreville	44%
France	Known for its pride in its differences from the rest of France, and featured in the films Taxi, The Bourne Identity and The Transporter.	c.600 BC	Marseille	44%
Yemen	Home to Ghumdan Palace and a Great Mosque.	before 300 BC	Sana'a	44%
San Marino	Founded by Saint Marinus.	301 AD	San Marino	44%
Cambodia	Famous for its temples.	802 AD	Siem Reap (and Angkor)	44%
North Macedonia	Is the city with the largest Roma population in the world. Was a Muslim city until the 19th Century.	4000s BC	Skopje	44%
Holy See	Home to St. Peter's Basilica.	1st Century AD	Vatican City	44%
The Gambia	Home to Arch 22.	before 1651 AD	Banjul	39%
New Zealand	(Two possible answers) A city known as a "gateway" to the Antarctic or a city that is home to New Zealand's largest port in terms of exports.	1250 AD	Christchurch or Tauranga	39%
Ukraine	The second capital of Russia.	482 AD (possibly 100s AD)	Kiev	39%
Monaco	Famous for its gambling industry.	500s BC	Monaco	39%
Suriname	Located along the Suriname River.	1603 AD	Paramaribo	39%
North Korea	Home to the unfinished and unoccupied Ryugyong Hotel.	1122 BC	Pyongyang	39%
Dominican Republic	Home to the Alcázar de Colón.	1498 AD	Santo Domingo	39%
Bhutan	Home to the Buddhist monastery Tashichhoedzong.	1955 AD	Thimphu	39%
Venezuela	Shares its name with a Spanish city.	c.200 AD	Valencia	39%
Ivory Coast	A major producer of musical art in Africa.	1898 AD	Abidjan	33%
Samoa	Robert Louis Stevenson lived here towards the end of his life and died here.	before 1800 AD	Apia	33%
Eritrea	Home to the Fiat Tagliero Building.	800 BC	Asmara	33%
Brunei	Home to the Omar Ali Saifuddien Mosque.	600s-1700s AD	Bandar Seri Begawan	33%
Guinea-Bissau	Many buildings were destroyed here during the Guinea-Bissau Civil War.	1687 AD	Bissau	33%
Republic of the Congo	(Two possible answers) A city home to Maya-Maya Airport or a city that is the centre of the oil industry in the country.	1883 AD	Brazzaville or Pointe-Noire	33%
Barbados	Kensington Oval is located here.	1628 AD	Bridgetown	33%
South Africa	Overlooked by Table Mountain.	before 1652 AD	Cape Town	33%
Albania	Second most populous city in the country.	627 BC	Durrës	33%
Vietnam	Home to Đồng Xuân Market and the Temple of Literature.	3000 BC	Hanoi	33%
São Tomé and Príncipe	Home to Fort São Sebastião, now a museum.	1493 AD	São Tomé	33%
Canada	Home to Cabot Tower.	24th June 1497 AD	St John's	33%
Antigua and Barbuda	Contains the only rum distillery on Antigua.	1632 AD	St. John's	33%
Seychelles	Shares its name with a British queen.	1778 AD	Victoria	33%
Nigeria	Has the same name as another African country.	c.1000s AD	Benin City	28%
United Kingdom	Famous for its cathedral.	before 54 BC	Canterbury	28%
Algeria	Named after a famous Roman emperor.	before 203 BC	Constantine	28%
Japan	Well-known for its ramen.	c.663 AD	Fukuoka	28%
Bulgaria	Contains one of the world's best-preserved Roman theatres.	6000–5000 BC	Plovdiv	28%
Uzbekistan	Was the capital of Sogdiana and the Timurid Empire.	700s BC	Samarkand	28%
Finland	Birthplace of Erik Johan Löfgren.	c.1229 AD	Turku	28%
Central African Republic	At the centre of a large anomaly in the Earth's magnetic field.	1889 AD (possibly 800s BC)	Bangui	22%
Belize	Has been featured in the film The Mosquito Coast and the TV show Mad Dogs.	before 1638 AD	Belize City	22%
Lebanon	The word Bible may have originated with this city's name.	8800 BC	Byblos	22%
Spain	Where Christopher Columbus sailed from on his second and fourth voyages.	1104 BC	Cádiz	22%
Solomon Islands	Location of the Battle of Guadalcanal.	before 1942 AD	Honiara	22%
Nicaragua	(Two possible answers) Birthplace of José Areas or a city recognised for its restaurants.	1524 AD	León or Granada	22%
Kenya	Visited by Vasco da Gama and Zheng He.	900 AD	Mombasa	22%
Trinidad and Tobago	Home to the Nicholas Tower.	1560 AD	Port of Spain	22%
Benin	Home to King Toffa's Palace.	1500s AD	Porto-Novo	22%
Dominica	Located near the Boiling Lake.	c.1500s-1600s AD	Roseau	22%
Grenada	Founded by the French, ceded to Great Britain by the Treaty of Paris in 1763.	1650 AD	St George's	22%
Morocco	Birthplace of Ibn Battuta, also famous for being exotic.	900s BC	Tangier	22%
Estonia	Was invaded by Ivan the Terrible in 1558.	400s AD	Tartu	22%
Malawi	The country's centre of finance and commerce.	1876 AD	Blantyre	17%
South Sudan	Was once a fishing village, but then became a trading depot.	1860s AD	Bor	17%
China	The Longmen Grottoes, White Horse Temple and Gaocheng Astronomical Observatory are all located nearby.	2070 BC	Luoyang	17%
Netherlands	Birthplace of the Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI.	98 AD	Nijmegen	17%
Tonga	A new island was created by a volcanic eruption nearby.	before 1777 AD	Nukuʻalofa	17%
Vanuatu	Preceded by the settlement of Franceville. Was heavily damaged by Cyclone Pam.	1200s BC	Port Vila	17%
Austria	Lies on the shores of Lake Constance.	1500-400s BC	Bregenz	11%
Burundi	Located on the north-eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika.	1871 AD	Bujumbura	11%
Equatorial Guinea	Home to St. Elizabeth's Cathedral	1827 AD	Malabo	11%
Mauritius	Contains a Chinatown with a pagoda.	1638 AD	Port Louis	11%
Senegal	Shares its name with a US city.	c.1450 AD	Saint-Louis	11%
Germany	Birthplace of Karl Marx.	before 16 BC	Trier	11%
South Korea	Hyundai Heavy Industries was founded here.	c.5000 BC	Ulsan	11%
Sweden	Was an important location for worship of the Norse gods.	200s AD	Uppsala	11%
Ireland	Home to the oldest urban civic building in Ireland, Reginald's Tower.	853 AD	Waterford	11%
Croatia	Contains the largest Roman forum on the eastern side of the Adriatic.	800s BC	Zadar	11%
Ethiopia	Capital of an empire of the same name, famous for its obelisks.	c. 1st Century AD	Axum	6%
United States	Consists of mounds.	600 AD	Cahokia	6%
Russia	Located on a narrow area between the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus mountains, this was once a Persian city.	700s BC	Derbent	6%
Iraq	Centred around a temple dedicated to the god Enki, the Sumerian water god.	c.5300 BC	Eridu	6%
Botswana	The first gold rush in southern Africa started nearby.	1897 AD	Francistown	6%
Somalia	Laal Geel complex, with its cave paintings, is located on the outskirts.	c.5000-2000 BC	Hargeisa	6%
Sudan	This city was not founded by the Kingdom of Kush but was settled by it later on.	c.3500 BC	Kerma	6%
Cyprus	Located near a network of salt lakes.	1200s BC	Larnaca	6%
Zambia	Named after a famous explorer.	1897 AD	Livingstone	6%
Italy	Its ancient town is called the Sassi, it has featured in the film The Passion of the Christ and a Metallica music video.	10000-9000 BC	Matera	6%
Jamaica	Location of the rebellion lead by Samuel Sharpe.	c.1655 AD	Montego Bay	6%
Comoros	Located at the foot of Mount Karthala.	c.900s AD	Moroni	6%
Slovakia	Home to a castle and located on a river, both of the same name as the city itself.	before 1600 BC	Nitra	6%
Kyrgyzstan	Was a major market along the Silk Road, with an outdoor bazaar that has occurred in the same spot for 2000 years.	c.1000 BC	Osh	6%
Indonesia	The Musi River divides the city, also contains a Great Mosque.	16th June 683 BC	Palembang	6%
Brazil	Not far from São Paulo, contains one of the first suspension bridges in Brazil.	1532 AD	São Vicente	6%
Belgium	The Romans called it Aduatuca Tungrorum.	before 70 AD	Tongeren	6%
Maldives	White Terns nest here.	c.1100 AD	Addu City	0%
Niger	Saw a lot of violence between 2007 and 2009.	before 1300s AD	Agadez	0%
United Arab Emirates	Home to Al Jahili Fort.	c.6000s BC	Al Ain	0%
El Salvador	Used to be the capital of the Pipil.	1054 AD	Antiguo Cuscatlán	0%
Sri Lanka	Home to the Atamasthana.	900s BC	Anuradhapura	0%
Cameroon	Main city of the Bamileke people.	1300s AD	Bafoussam	0%
Afghanistan	Was once the capital of Bactria.	2000-1500 BC	Balkh	0%
Cuba	Located on the spot where Christopher Columbus landed.	1511 AD	Baracoa	0%
Myanmar	Founded by Princess Pan Htwar.	c.200 BC	Beikthano	0%
India	Once a city of the Indus Valley Civilisation, now a small village.	7570 BC	Bhirrana	0%
Tunisia	Was a strategic port during World War Two.	1100 BC	Bizerte	0%
Bangladesh	Mahasthangarh, an ancient site, is located nearby.	c.268 BC	Bogra	0%
Ghana	Home to a "slave castle" of the same name.	1482 AD	Cape Coast	0%
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Hutovo Blato Park is located nearby.	5 BC	Čapljina	0%
Peru	The oldest city in the Americas, built by the Norte Chico Civilisation.	c.2600 BC	Caral	0%
Turkey	People traveled around the city and entered the houses via the rooves.	c.7500 BC	Çatalhöyük	0%
Switzerland	Home to the Giger Bar, designed by H.R. Giger.	3900-3500 BC	Chur	0%
Cape Verde	Was the first European colonial settlement in the tropics.	1462 AD	Cidade Velha	0%
Uruguay	Home to the Basilica of the Holy Sacrament.	1680 AD	Colonia del Sacramento	0%
Honduras	A Mayan city occupied for more than two thousand years, shares its name with a department.	before 400s AD	Copán	0%
Marshall Islands	Began as a trading outpost of the German Empire	1884 AD	Delap-Uliga-Djarrit	0%
Saint Kitts and Nevis	Was destroyed by the Spanish but re-founded by the French.	1538 AD	Dieppe Bay Town	0%
Mali	Famous for its adobe mosque.	c.200 BC	Djenné	0%
Saudi Arabia	Was called Adummatu by the Assyrians, who describe it as the capital of an Arab kingdom.	900s BC	Dumat al-Jandal	0%
Egypt	It was the most significant centre of the cult of the crocodile god Sobek.	c.4000 BC	Faiyum	0%
Haiti	Where Haiti's independence was proclaimed.	1503 AD	Fort-Liberté	0%
Guyana	A Dutch trading post that was the capital of the colony Berbice.	1627 AD	Fort Nassau	0%
Libya	Its old town became a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1986. Has its own Berber language.	4000s BC	Ghadames	0%
Zimbabwe	Consists of enclosures and towers.	1000s AD	Great Zimbabwe	0%
Costa Rica	Consisted of circular mounds. Water was allowed to run between them.	1000 BC	Guayabo de Turrialba	0%
Iran	Was the summer capital of the Parthian Empire.	1100-600s BC	Hamadān	0%
Mozambique	Diving is popular in nearby coastal areas.	1000s AD	Inhambane	0%
Tajikistan	Was a major city along the Silk Road, it sits at the mouth of the Fergana Valley.	544 BC	Khujand	0%
Democratic Republic of Congo	Henry Morton Stanley called it a "remarkable town".	before 1876 AD	Kindu	0%
Togo	The Misahöhe Forest Reserve is located nearby.	before 1700s AD	Kpalimé	0%
Guinea	Founded by Muslim religious leader Karamokho Alfa.	1755 AD	Labé	0%
Fiji	Site of Fiji's first bank, post office, school, hospital and town hall.	1820 AD	Levuka	0%
Eswatini	Started as a trading post.	1885 AD	Manzini	0%
Uganda	Home to a University of Science and Technology.	1899 AD	Mbarara	0%
Pakistan	The oldest ceramic figures in South Asia were found here.	c.7000 BC	Mehrgarh	0%
Lesotho	Gives its name to its district. First inhabited by the San.	before 1795 AD	Mohale's Hoek	0%
Georgia	Home to Jvari Monastery.	400s BC	Mtskheta	0%
Bahrain	Located near a group of man-made islands called Amwaj Islands.	before 250 BC	Muharraq	0%
Federated States of Micronesia	Has been nicknamed the "Venice of the Pacific".	100-200 AD	Nan Madol	0%
Chad	Was the capital of the Kanem-Bornu Empire.	1000s AD	Njimi	0%
Panama	Was the most significant port in the Americas between 1540 and 1580.	1510 AD	Nombre de Dios	0%
Rwanda	The most notable feature of this city (now a town) is the King's Palace.	1600s AD	Nyanza	0%
Mongolia	Was the capital of the first Uyghur Khaganate.	744 AD	Ordu-Baliq	0%
Namibia	Home to the Mighty Gunners FC.	1390 AD	Otjiwarongo	0%
Thailand	Founded as a small, Khmer outpost. Home to Wat Phra Si Rattana Mahathat.	1000s AD	Phitsanulok	0%
Laos	Bullfights occur during the Hmong New Year here.	c.400s BC	Phonsavan	0%
Romania	The city symbol is a church tower commonly called Stephen's Tower.	c.3600 BC	Piatra Neamț	0%
Montenegro	Home to a medieval Serbian Orthodox monastery complex.	12,000-8,000 BC	Pljevlja	0%
Belarus	Was under siege in 1579.	862 AD	Polotsk	0%
Slovenia	The city hosts a ten-day festival called Kurentovanje.	before 69 AD	Ptuj	0%
Guatemala	Has a system of micro-buses.	before 7th May 1524 AD	Quetzaltenango	0%
Latvia	Built on seven hills.	800s AD	Rēzekne	0%
Moldova	Was inhabited by Thracians and Geto-Dacians. Capital of a district of the same name.	5000-3000 BC	Rezina	0%
Denmark	Mandø Island Nature Reserve is located nearby.	854 AD	Ribe	0%
Mauritania	Once the capital of the Emirate of Trarza.	1640-1902 AD	Rosso	0%
Mexico	An Olmec city, though it predates the civilisation. Ten carved heads were found here.	1500 BC	San Lorenzo	0%
Liberia	More than 2,000 people here are employed by "Jungle Water Group of Investment".	c.1450 AD	Sanniquellie	0%
Colombia	Where Simón Bolívar died.	29th July 1525 AD	Santa Marta	0%
Argentina	Was heavily damaged in an earthquake in 1817.	1533 AD	Santiago del Estero	0%
Tuvalu	People moved to here after missionaries arrived.	1800s AD	Savave	0%
Kazakhstan	Once contained a community of Nestorian Christians.	900s BC	Sayram	0%
Lithuania	The Hill of Crosses is located nearby.	1236 AD	Šiauliai	0%
Serbia	Once the Roman settlement of Vinceia.	7000-6000 BC	Smederevo	0%
Hungary	Birthplace of Saint Martin of Tours.	45 AD	Szombathely	0%
Djibouti	Engaged in trade with Phoenicia, Ptolemaic Egypt, Greece, Parthian Persia, Saba, Nabataea, and the Roman Empire.	before 1154 AD (since antiquity)	Tadjoura	0%
Taiwan	Home to seven Buddhist temples and eight Taoist shrines.	1500s AD	Tainan	0%
Burkina Faso	Was the centre of a city state of the Mossi Empire.	1120 AD	Tenkodogo	0%
Bolivia	Pre-Columbian site, with the most famous structure being the Gate of the Sun.	c.110 AD (or before)	Tiwanaku	0%
Norway	Home to five nature reserves.	800s AD	Tønsberg	0%
Kiribati	Site of the Battle of Drummond's Island, between members of the United States Exploring Expedition and the natives.	before 1841 AD	Utiroa	0%
Tanzania	The old area of the city is called Stone Town.	1700 AD	Zanzibar City	0%
Malta	Hosts an annual festival celebrating the olive picking season.	3600-3200 BC	Żejtun	0%

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